Newegg.com - A great place to buy computers, computer parts, electronics, software, accessories, and DVDs online. With great prices, fast shipping, and top-rated customer service - once you know, you Newegg.

If you are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh" button). Please email us if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still see this message.

The CR-H252 is a Dual Drive Bay solution featuring an internal hardware RAID controller, solid all-aluminum enclosure with (2) hot-swappable tool-less drive trays, making installation a snap. Developed for professionals looking for high speed and large capacities from a storage and backup device with a small foot print for easy transport. Offering super speed USB 3.0 for easy universal connectivity to a Mac or PC. 3 RAID modes makes it easily customizable for speed and protection depending on individual needs.

Versatile & Robust Designed with a sturdy aluminum body, the CR-H252 is definitely built to last. It's compact and space saving abilities make it an ideal solution for any work environment and easily stackable for multiple storage applications. The USB 3.0 allows users to effortlessly move data between stations at up to 5Gbps data transfer speed.

Easy RAID Setup The CineRAID Home CR-H252 features three RAID modes with an easy dip-switch RAID setup for customizable speed and protection levels. RAID 0 offers large capacity and highest speeds by stripping both drives together, but no protection. RAID 1 offers full data protection by mirroring both hot-swappable disks for non stop data access or to use a mirrored drive as a backup. JBOD offers one large capacity of both drives. Normal mode is also an option for individual drive detection.

Home and Office This enclosure is suitable for every home or office professional dealing with data archiving, backup and audio/video post-production with SD and HD environments.

Quiet Cooling The all aluminum body and quiet rear fan efficiently draws heat away from internal drives, keeping them cool and safe at all times.

Package Contents

Quick Info

WarrantyBeyond any applicable Newegg return policy, this item is warranted independently by the product's Manufacturer or a Third party. Below is a summary provided for convenience only and may not be accurate or current.
Read full details.

Rating: 1/5Cheap enclosure not fit for Raid 1

Cons: Enclosure suffers from frequent disconnects from host machine. Power cycling does not always fix this, requiring the enclosure be fully disconnected, power cycled, and then reconnected. Enclosure has poor raid support, and recently my Raid 1 array was wiped for unknown reasons. Both drives now come up as uninitialized. For this to happen to both drives in the array is very suspect in this enclosure which has demonstrated inconsistency.

Rating: 5/5Easy to use

Pros: cost efficiency and easy to use.I have a Dell note book ( refurbished Dell Inspiron N5110, also from Newegg) and use CR-252 as an external storage to back up my data, it runs flawless and super fast.But my old desk top system has a third party USB 3.0 card and USB 3.0 hub, do have the "Blue Screen" issue once,After check with Cineraid support and they guide me to get a firmware update from my USB 3.0 hub manufacture, the problem solved.

Rating: 2/5Basic no-frills RAID unit

Pros: The unit is a very low cost RAID enclosure. I found the speed with USB 3.0 to be excellent considering the price. Initial setup was easy.

Cons: After initial setup and use in RAID 1 configuration with two identical Seagate 2TB drives, I attempted to test the unit by pulling one of the drives. I confirmed that the same data was on both individual drives. However, there seems to be no way to add the drive back to the enclosure and allow the RAID 1 set to rebuilb without completely wiping both drives. All you get is the incessant blue flashing lights indicating "Cannot re-build RAID set". This was the case even though no additional data was written to either drive during the test. As others have pointed out, documentation is very poor and provides no procedure for rebuilding the RAID set while preserving data on one of the drives like you would expect with any leading smart-RAID controller/enclosure. Multiple attempts to get a response from the companies e-mail support were completely ignored.

Other Thoughts: Considering the money that I paid for the unit ~$50, it may prove to be effective to guard against a single drive failure. However, once a failure occurs you will need to have another drive available copy all of your data or use some other backup option to preserve the data as you will be forced to wipe the drives to re-establish a RAID 1 set.

Rating: 1/5Don't buy it

Cons: You get what you pay for. I've had nothing but problems with this enclosure. First problem I had what that it caused one of my computers to constantly blue screen. I then decided plugged it into my router and used it as a shared drive. That worked great for a couple months. I checked my files one day and everything was gone. I'm assuming it went into raid mode like someone else mentioned. I'm not exactly sure what it did but I just lost close to 1TB worth of pictures, music, archived emails and so much more. I tried to contact their support (not really sure why, they can't recover my lost data) and no replay.

Other Thoughts: If you want your data to be safe, spend a little extra money and get something reliable.

Well, the RAID rebuild finished (red lights stopped blinking finally), and it appeared to be working. I yanked the *other* drive to simulate *other* drive failure, however, RAID didn't automatically start to rebuild... only after I "rebooted" the enclosure did is start to rebuild (note: this could be due to the OS not letting the drive idle I suppose).

DO NOT consider your RAID rebuilt until the red lights blink in unison for a period of time, without OS access (for me, 80GB partition took about half an hour). Reboot the enclosure if necessary (unplugged from puter removes possibility of OS access "interruptions").

In any event, I bumped my rating down to a single egg because, regardless of how flaky it is with RAID rebuilds, the controller disconnects randomly, like so random that if I touch it the wrong way, it disconnects :/ To the point I thought it was the cable or something "pyhsical". I used a different USB cable, port on my puter, even power outlet, and it still seems to disconnect randomly. Fortunately, since I'm keeping the drive policy at "Quick Disconnect," (write cache off) these unexpected disconnects don't seem to cause data loss (though my computer does get rather angry if it's accessing the drive when it disconnects).

Through the Newegg EggXpert Review Program, Newegg invites its best reviewers, known as EggXperts, to post opinions about new and pre-release products to help their fellow customers make informed buying decisions.Click here for more details.

Loading...

This item is eligible for Newegg Premier benefits. Are you a Newegg Premier Member? If not, sign up today and get:

Send It As A Gift!

Make this item a gift

Newegg’s gift-wrap service is the ideal solution for making your gift special!
Select your item as a gift, then add your message. Your gift will also be discreet with no prices being included on the packing slip.

Are you an E-Blast Insider?

Thank you for subscribing

Your request will be processed within the next 24 hours.

Please add "promo@e.newegg.com" to your address book to ensure delivery.